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From lowest to highest, Louisiana ranked 33rd of all states for the total number of children in food insecure households and 45th for percentage.

From lowest to highest, Louisiana ranked 33rd of all states for the total number of children in food insecure households and 45th for percentage.

AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers provide valuable services local organizations by pledging to “get things done."

Jessie Sutton, 93, doesn't like publicity and would never ask for attention, said Jayne Wright-Velez, executive director of the Food Bank of Central Louisiana. So for National Volunteers Week, the Food Bank surprised and publicly honored the founder of the Senior Resource Program with a bouquet of flowers and a gift last Wednesday. It also marked Sutton's retirement from operating a program where she made and served lunch to seniors every Wednesday at her church, the Church of God in Pineville. With her retirement, the program will also cease.  Sutton started the program 30 years ago a...

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Genuine Foods Donates More Than a Million Meals to Southeast Food Banks December 21, 2020 GMT NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 21, 2020-- In response to the recent natural disasters and health and economic crises that continue to batter the region, eight regional food banks across the Southeast are receiving a donation of nutritious meal kits from Genuine Foods. Each meal kit feeds one person breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack for seven days. ADVERTISEMENT Second Harvest Food Banks in Lafayette, L...